THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. 
In furtherance of the object of your Article of the 15th of August upon the 
* Statistics of Agriculture," and of your inquiry—What is our growth, and what is 
our consumption of Corn? I send for your perusal, and, if you think well of it, for 
insertion in your Paper, an Analysis which has been made by a very able statist, 
MARLBOROUGH UNION. 
ANALYSIS OF THE AREA, CupTIVATION, WHEAT, PRopUcE, AND Poprutation.—1846. 
Towns, Woods cn A |a BEST: E 2 
Roads, | Villages,| _ and Dry Water 239 93 aa | we 
PARISHES. Water, and Planta- |Commons, Downs, Meadows. | Meadows.  ^Arable. Total, 59| $3 escis 3 a 28 
&c. Home- tions. 5a] oe Baasa] ae 
stalls. > | 3 jae |= am 
Avr pi | Aor pef Aor p. | Aor. p OE a he oem p r. A: r "p. | | | 
Averury a «ae ee | 1 111|58 016 8 0 0 se 1,646 219 | 272 1 0 148 126 2,10 2 5 1 6 3&4 642 | 30 | 2,07 | T51 
| Berwick Basser . .. E E FT 5| 12000065 T 112 E 156 028 | 467 229 oo 733 2 8 012| 8 | 244 | 32 976 | 175 
Broap HINTON * ves we "Loue (LOO. DB 19: 24-50. OH" 48-0: 35: a 266 2 4 1828 2 18 $ 2,072 1 0 33 | 3 | 690 | 32 | 2,760 | 670 
FYFIELD (.. m .. m oe « oe {10 6 0} 5 0 0) 120 0 0 m 568 0 0 | 39 0 0 | 20 0 0 560 0 0 0| £|140 | 26 280 | 150 
| Kanner Sn Vs aa s vs | UB 2-0 |. (852,28 200 E 298. 2 1| 44 229 .. 416 13 82 12|; 4| 10t | 30 390 15 
i ManrnsonooanH, St, Mary "T oe s. | 10 039|35 2 4 02 0} 20 021 we 43 118| 6 013 . 315 | we | ej] E 1871 
i Do. St. Peter ae "M ..|10 0 0|32 033 010 E . 97 0 4 . 9 337|..| - . 
} MILDENNALG .. we a» e | 80.0 0115 0 0, 680 110 E 524 3 8196 2 3 0 19 | 
| OcnonN, St. Andrew m m m es | 39 0 2 | 22) 2 85 66 0 19 E 2,696 0 0 | 246 0 0 0 3 16 | 6 
2o. St.George . v eso. | 56 1 556 1 6,129 319 E 1,005 116 | 405 3 1 0 0 585 
OVERTON at . oe m -.|15 0 0/40 0 0,304 0 0 E 850 0 0 | 270 0 0 0 0 | 
PRESHUTE * e 5 oe oe os | 69 *2 87 | 59 123. | 167 0 35 | 92 129} 1,852 232 | 572 233 23 3 30 
WiwTERBSOURN BASSET elei E .|10 0 0/22 0 0} 21 0 0 E 168 0 0|428 0 0 2 0 0 0 3 | 
| Do. MONKTON m aed i] 195:2:20:1121-:27:0: 7:12 022 IT oe 494 336 | 144 3 2 | . 195 3 110 | 
348 316 403 125 |1567 111 {112 2 10 |10,022 2 24 4996 3 20 38248 0 30 | +» |5634 | 29 |20,149 | 8744 
RESULT. 
A. x. p. | Area in Wheat m . m 5 . 5,634 acres. 
| Roads, Water, de, E m ‘ere! ast - 848 3 16| Produce per Acre zh ce id gaoa 29 bushels. 
d "Towns, Villages, Homestalls, &c. oe on we oe 403 1 25} Total Wheat Produce 2 * rS: gë ..20,149 quarters. 
l Woods and Plantations or we E «+ 1,567 1 11} Population.. . . v. we 8,744 m 
i Common: REM eire Sine 112 2 10 
Downs a £14 2.1 S Shere. COWON. St 28 ^ 
Dry Meadows TERERAA 4,996 2 25 ? 
f Water Meadows i d ë Ato .. 646 3 N Allowing 6 bushels per head per annum, or 11b. of Wheat per day, the produce gives Bread: 
} b Er € . we 220,149 3 20 | Corn for 26,865 people. 
i di 
38,248 0- 30 p 
Home Correspondence. 
Russian Bean—The Bean respecting which your 
Correspondent * Norfolk Subscriber ” makes inquiry, 
believe originally came from Russia; it greatly re- 
sembles the Heligoland, and is becoming generally 
known as the Russian or Winter Bean. Its capabili- 
ties to stand our winters in the south, when sown in 
September and early in October, I have fully tested, 
having grown it every year the last 16 or 17 years, and 
never saw it hurt except on springy land, or when it 
has been later sown. I think it a most valuable intro- 
duction for loamy soils ; the advantages from growing 
it are that it does well on soils unsuited for spring 
Beaus, affords an excellent alterative crop and seed- 
bed for Turnips; it harvests early (mine this year 
Were cut early in July) and admirably, and at little 
Cost, enables the ground to be prepared for Wheat, and 
hen well sown, that is to say, drilled wide and kept 
Perfectly clean by the frequent use of the scarifier aud 
hand hoe, admits of foul land being cleaned at little 
Cost, and without the loss of a crop of corn. I have 
finer crops of Turnips upon 25 acres that were sown 
among my Beans, at a cost of only 7s. or 8s. per acre, 
than are generally to be seen this year with high ma- 
nuring and’a fallow. I shall this week put nearly 600 
Sheep on them, and they will last them nearly two 
months ; and yet, after erops giving 4 to 5 quarters of 
Beans per or more—and one of the fields was a 
Piece of old Sainf that had lain as waste for many 
years, full of weeds, and in every respect appeared un- A i: 
Suited to the growth of other corn; this piece, which | 9e out of their own pockets ; nor is there any law by 
lies on the Haling farm, adjoining Croydon, was broken | which any member can be compelled to contribute a 
up last September, and sown with Beans in October, is | single farthing for such purposes. He considers the 
person entering be under 36 years of age, 2s. 3d. for an 
apron, 6d. per week contribution, entitling him to 10s. 
per week during sickness, to medical attendance and 
medicine, to 107, at a member's death, and 5/. at the 
death of his wife, and to the benefits of the widow and 
orphans’ fund; and over and above all this, relief is 
afforded to those who are compelled to travel in seareh 
of employment. There is also a contribution of about 
ld. a week to meet the incidental expences of the lodge 
and district; so much for the “ necessaries,” now for 
the “extras.” ** An Operative Spinner” says, “ there 
is 20s. entrance fee.” The 29th general law of the order 
says, “That the entrance fee shall not be less than 17. 15., 
and that it shall be discretionary with lodges how much 
they charge above that sum.” Again, he says there is 
the expense of beer and tobacco. Law 14 distinetly 
states that no member shall be charged with liquor- 
money as part of his contributions ; and as to “ footings 
on change nights,” I am entirely ignorant of what is 
meant by the phrase, but can safely aver that such 
usage has no existence in the laws of the order, nor in 
any lodge or district with which I am at all acquainted. 
Again he says there is the expense of “ lectures ;" law 
122 says, * That no member shall be required to pay 
for taking degrees” (lectures) ; “any district or lodge 
violating this law shall be fined one guinea.” Then 
there is the expense of collections for presentations of 
snuffboxes, &e. &e. I readily admit that the order 
has no law to forbid members from making presenta- 
tions to whom they please, so long as they pay for the 
Old Abbey Lodge, North London District. [The above 
is a mere selection of extracts from a long paper on this: 
subjeet, with whieh we have been favoured by Mr. 
Cheyne, but whieh we have been unable to insert 
entire. 
Odd Fellowship.—An. * Operative Spinner,” at page 
572, has pointed out the evil effects of odd fellowship, 
which I beg to concur in the smoking and drinking part 
of the subject, and that it would be better conducted in 
a school.room, or a coffee-house. Sues, I fear, is im- 
possible at present. Lectures or meetings on the Sab- . 
bath have been prohibited years past ; and, no doubt, 
the time has arrived when ail that ridiculous nonsense 
of presentations and regalia will be abolished. That 
such money should go to support the afilicted needs no 
argument to prove ; that the society is right in prin- 
ciple, there can be no mistake; and details such as 
those pointed out by your correspondent (which are 
optional with members) will be stopped by enlisting 
honour and respectability. No doubt the thinking por- 
tion of odd fellows will be grateful for your “ Ope- 
rative's? remarks. Physically considered, it has not 
been supported (excepting isolated districts) to that 
extent by hard-working mechanics, without which acts 
of benevolence have not their due influence. To con- 
vince your correspondent it is not only ministers of the 
Gospel who support it, there are in this neighbourhood 
lords and baronets, viscounts, and members of Parlia- 
ment, &e. &¢., who have placed their shoulders to this. 
wheel of benefi 3 iti ble to suppose 
they would sanction anything leading to vice and intem- 
peranee : quite the eontrary.— W., Brown, Merevale, 
Aug. 25. [This appears tous to represent about the 
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now covered with a " Eon: : | benefits of savings'-banks far superior to the supposed 
OE are xis e | advantages of odd fellowship. May I call his attention 
| to the following, not supposed, but real facts, which I 
| copy from a periodical I have now before me.* * Died, 
| Nov. 4, 1844, brother H. Holland, of the Cochrane 
| Lodge, Bury District. He was initiated in the above 
| lodge, on the 13th Dec., 1828, at the age of 24. On the 
| Ist of August, 1837, whilst at work in a coal-pit, a 
| serious accident befell him, whereby he lost the entire 
use of his limbs, and from that day to the date of his 
death, a period of six years and three months, he was 
| confined to his bed. "The following is the amount of 
peeuniary assistanee he received from sources connected 
with the order :— 
sown with Wheat this autumn, This Bean, for is early 
flowering and setting, appears never to suffer from the 
dolphin, or, indeed, from spring drought, of which the 
crop this year is a remarkable instance. They have 
proved fine crops without exeeption, yet generally 
Spring Beans have been almost a total failure.— Hewitt 
Davis, 3, Frederick’s-place, Old Jewry, London. 
Odd Fellowship versus Savings-banks.—1l find the 
following all bearing the cognomen of odd fellows :— 
ndependent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity ; 
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, Sheffield Unity ; 
Ancient Noble Order of Odd Fellows, Bolton Unity ; 
Imperial Order of Odd Fellows, Nottingham Unity ; 
United Order of Odd Fellows, Leeds Unity ; Indepen- 
dent Order of Odd Fellows, Paddock Unity ; Indepen- 
dent Reformed Order of Odd Fellows; and the National 
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Now, as all the 
foregoing * Orders? 
other, it will 
their stri 
their article 
28 more intelli 
Order, will at once prove him to be ignorant indeed of 
£ s. d. 
Received from his own lodge in sick allowance .. 137 5 0 
| Donations from various lodges in the-district 10 0 0 
| Donations from the A. M. O.s, at York, Isle of 
Man, Wigan, and Bradford... Ve ix f. MANOS 
ep 
at once, I think, 
In conclusion I woul 
labdurer throughout the length and 
land, who possesses a suffici of manly spe 
to cause them to view with abhorrence the probability 
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its constitution. Before entering upon an examination | of having, in the hour of sickness and distress, to throw 
9f those “ extra 
brief account o 
f the “ necessaries,” and in doing so, I 
shall confine myself to what they are in the lodge to | of odd 
which I belong. First, there is 21s, entrance fee, if the 
as" it may not be out of place to give a | the 
mselves upon the “tender mereies of the parish 
beadle," to at once enrol themselves under the banners 
fellowship.—John Cheyne, Member of the Loyal 
* Odd Fellows' Magazine, 
truth of the matter ; and we hope our correspondents 
will consider that this subject has now received sufü- 
cient discussion in these columns. ] 
Benefit Societies. —Y our correspondent “J. H.” does 
not seem to be aware of the character of the only de- 
scription of benefit society to which my remarks alluded. 
I dislike, as much as he can do, all those benefit clubs 
which meet at publie-houses, and whose rules are in- 
consistent with their being secure and permanently sol- 
vent, The benefit societies to which I allude are just 
as secure as any life assurance companies, and they 
grant annuities to old members. Hereabouts, it would 
be very rarely possible for a labourer to lay by 2s. 
weekly, If a lad enters the society before 15 years of 
age, he has to pay less than 6d. weekly for the 
rest of his life, for the benefit of 10s. weekly and medi- 
eal attendance in sickness, with an annuity of 5s. weekly 
(without further payments) after he is 65, and 5. for 
funeral expences. If he wishes for an annuity alone 
after 60, without being in the sickness table, he has to 
contribute only 113d. monthly for enrolment in the 
ension table. If “J. H." wishes for further informa- 
tion, he may consult No. 28 of the “ Labourers’ Friend,” 
price 3d., of which I this day received a copy; and 
have observed it has some remarks upon ** Money mat- 
ters of the Working Classes.” It is published at 
Saville’s, No. 4, Chandos-street, and appears monthly.— 
J. S. Henslow, Hitcham, September 8. 
Bokhara Clover.—I inclose a head or spike of what 
is, in my neighbourhood, called Bokhara Clover. The 
plant is strong and shrubby, and, if it spring up well 
after eutting, promises to be a good forage plant. Cam 
any of your readers give any information on the subject 
of Bokhara Clover? I senta head of it to a friend at 
a distance, with a similar query, and the answer was, 
that it was grown by a friend of his three years ago, 
but that neither horses, cattle, nor pigs would look at it; 
and another, that the portion of the field in which it 
